Microsoft Migration Accelerator’s functionality, which enables pain-free migration of physical servers, and VMware, AWS and Hyper-V virtual machines to Azure, is now incorporated into Azure Site Recovery. Application data needs to be replicated to Azure only once and can be used for both migration and disaster recovery. You also get a consistent ASR experience in the Azure portal.

With AoD, you can use ASR to migrate heterogeneous workloads to Azure and solve IT challenges with the power of Microsoft Azure:

Reduce the burden on IT and lower costs for your on-premises infrastructure

Control where you run apps and store data for a true hybrid experience

Customers that want a solution that enables migration of their existing on-premise virtualized workloads to Azure, most often look for three very important considerations when making the decision:

Reduce downtime of production workload during migration

Test applications in Azure before migration

Replicate data to Azure only once, for both migration and recovery

For customers, who want a unified solution that meets the above criteria (and more), Azure Site Recovery with its in-built features can help make migrating to Azure simple, reliable, and quick. Here is how you would go about migrating an on-premises application to Azure:

Once you are ready to get started, check out additional product information, to start migrating your workloads to Microsoft Azure using Azure Site Recovery. Now we’ve made it easier to try Azure Site Recovery to enable Availability on Demand, and to extend and help protect your datacenter. You can use the powerful replication capabilities of Site Recovery for 31 days at no charge for every new physical server or virtual machine that you replicate.